Vince Walker

Vince Walker was an American journalist who worked for the New York Times. He covered Mahatma Gandhi's Indian independence struggle for years, granting his satyagraha movement exposure.

Biography
Vince Walker was a journalist from the United States, and he travelled to South Africa in 1893 to report on Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent resistance campaign against the British racial policies. With permission from Jan Smuts, Walker was able to arrange a meeting with Gandhi, and Gandhi showed him his ashram collective farm, where Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, and Christians lived in harmony. Walker would follow Gandhi for years, reporting on his nonviolent resistance campaigns against the United Kingdom. It was through the New York Times that Gandhi gained international exposure, and Walker was responsible for spreading the news of Gandhi's peaceful protest movement and its successes (and failures).